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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton

Enthusiasm, Skill, Rate

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Become, Nobody, Suspicious

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Gregory Bateson

Rather, Value, Fall

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
Julius Erving

Time, Perfect, Try

Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Good, Care, Important

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud

Men, Human, Off

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Robert Quillen

Thought, Word, Act

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
Thom Yorke

Power, Around, Makes

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
Aly Khan

Great, Legal, Islam

My daughter loves singing above all else.
Vanessa Paradis

Else, Singing, Daughter

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
Rupert Everett

War, Yourself, Whole

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
John Cassavetes

Try, Artist, Fail

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
Angela Merkel

Important, Point, Europe

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.
Angela Merkel

Time, Through, Thought

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
Bud Abbott

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
Julie Walters

Else, Wanted, Mum

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
Bob Geldof

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope, Compassion, Perception

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
Ian Mcewan

Work, Trying, Thought

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Jeremy Taylor

Fool, Proud, Mine

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Adrienne Rich

Power, Poetry, Everything

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer

Remember, Before, Put

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks

Important, Single, Two

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
Nicholas Sparks

Universal, Characters, Readers

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess

Country, Try, Sense

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska

Daily, Themselves, Read

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry, Nothing, Single

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
Charles Peguy

Difficult, Tell

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
Sun Ra

Great, Truth, Dealing

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
Emmanuelle Beart

Business, Woman, Old

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